Factoring device



N. B. BRALY.

FACTORING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1, 1919.

1,354,375, Patented Sept. 28, 1920.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

N ORMAN BLYTHE BRALY, F BUTTE, 'MONTANA.

FACTORING DEVICE.

To aZl'wh-omc'tmag COHCGWL! I 'Be it known that I,-NORMAN Bi BRALY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Butte, in the county of 'Silver Bow and State of Montana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Factoring Devices, of which the following is a specification. 1 v

The present invention relates to means or apparatus for securing efiiciency records of workmen, and more particularly for determining theindividual capacities of men working together or in gangs; It has been found especially useful in connection with mining operations, but is of course not restricted in its scope to the same, The said. apparatus, in effect, constitutes part of a system that hasproven efiic'acious and thoroughly successful in actual practice.

In the accompanying drawings 2+ v Figure l is a'view in elevation of a.factoring device and a record card in place therein and in proper relation to. easily determine the. efhciency of the men employed in cere with the card removed.

tainpredeterminedolwmtions.

Fig. 2 is across sectionalview through thesame. Fig. 3 is a view similar to ,Fig.; 2, but

Fig. 4. is a detail view in elevation of a portion of the factoring device with the card removed. 7 i m 'j c F ig. 5 is a face'view'on an enlarged scale of the record card per se. I

Similar reference numerals designate cor- V respondingparts in all the figures of the drawings. V ,7 1 p Q-Referring first to the cardillustrated in Fig. 5, the same is'utilized for recording certain features of mining work when performed by twomen, though the card may be modified for the records of any number working together. Thiscard comprises two sections (Sand 7 with a. line of perforations 8 defining the said sections and affording convenient means for separating them. The card is'provided in its left hand r'nargin with openings 9, whereby it or its sections may be placed inbinders; The card furthermore has on the left handpoition pictorial representations 10 of different opera,- tions in mining. The different ,featuresof the. illustrations have descriptive titles 11 and are also provided with reference char- ..actersFA, 13,- (1, etc, as: shown,

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept 28, 192() Application filed July 7, 1919. Serial No. 308,969.

The right hand portion of the card or are. identified by reference characters corre sponding to those applied/to the different pictorial representations. 'Eachsection' is furthermore provided with a ruled line i l to receive thenumber by. which a workman is identified, the word Number preferably preceding said line, as shown. Dire'ctly beneath that line is another line 15 adapted to receive the average to be determined by the record made of the workmans actual operations, and this line 15 is preferably preceded as shown by the word Total. In addition, each section is provided with a line 16 preceded by the word Place and adapted to receive a number designating the particular portion of the mine in which the out.

In connection with cards of the character above described, there is, employed a factoring device shown in Figs. '1-4: inclusive. This device consists of asuitable body plate 17 having pins 18 extending from one side, and provided with terminal knobsll) by which the plateccan be mounted in a rack with others of an analogous character. This body has preferably printed upon itas shown at 20 a title defining the particular work to be determined thereby,- and also having a designation, as 21 of the mine in which said work iscarried on. Upon one face of the body 17 is placed a sheet of transparent material 22, preferably celluloid, held in place by screws 23hr other fasteners. c This sheet 22 is separated from the body17 by a spacing sheet2 l interposed between the two and cut out to form a cardreceiving pocket 25. Upon the sheet is a column'of factors 26. V Y

In-order to explain the utility of the device,- a concrete Xample will be given, employing the factors shown in connection with the card as illustrated. 1,000 units is taken to represent the perfect score for a weeks 'work of 6 days, or 166.66 units per day. In other words 1,000 units is equivalent to 100%. If, 8 hours is taken as the basis of a days Work, the men go to their places of wbrk on company time, which takes about half an hour, and after reach Operations are carried clitional company time is allowed to make their places safe. Under this method of calculating. the mens time, they actually work only 7 hours, or 4:20 minutes. e

divided by 166.66 units (a perfect days i work) gives 2.52 minutes work per un1t for two men, In other words when two efiicient men work together for 2.52 minutes they "have accomplished 1 unit of workjoi the 1,000 units, which form a weeks work of 6 day's. The factorslonthe 'celluloid sheet are. determined as follows :-'Taking, for elx ample,the letter A on the record card illustrated, it will be noted that" it desig hates 1 a mine post, is foundithatjthei actual time required to put in amine "post V under predetermined conditions is 7.8 minutes, anddividing it by 2.52, the ratio above 7 given, the resulting factor" is 3.1 3 Furthermore the' actual time it takes to put in a cap ('B, on the illustration) i's' 10' 6 minutes.

This divided by 2.52 gives "a unit; of 141.2 for the. factor, and thus the list i determined j Figs. 1 and 4:, are placed in a column on for allthe operations illustrated." These factorsfas will benote'd by reference to the transparent sheet 22, and areso located that when {the card 6-7 is Jplac edin the pocket 25 thefactors will'be over the shaded spaces 13 and alined with'the respective 1 spaces in which the records for'the different operationsare to be recorded.

All that is necessary therefore: to determine the efficiency of a man isto ascertain just whatworklwas done by him and-his associates andfac'to'r it; Thus, in the present example, two men No; 702andNo'. 183.

effected the following operations.

A put in i4 posts. B put in 2icaps, 3

r C put'in5 girts.

1]) put in 8 blocks? working. inPlace'No. 2858 on May20,;1919f,

I These two men,-theref ore, .have each secured'll l units out of a possible 166.66 for the days work, and their efiiciency forthe .1, day would be LE/166.6 0r'68.4;%. v

" As a matter of convenience, however, the

differentcharacters of work they may efficiency is not determined everyday,

only once a week. The coupons or sections ofthecardsare separated each day and filed together'under the mans working number.

It.;wil1 make no difference therefore how.

men are shifted from-place to place, nor the form. Thelraverage can readilybe asccr fied. For example, thecards, for the man 1 tained, and they'may thus be properly classi 170.702 for the we'ek'may appear'a's follows: 7

' Thetotal therefore immediately givesthe percentage of his efiiciency.

" It will thus be seen 'that fthe apparatus 0 v constitutes'means by which inefiicient," average, and; highly eflicient men can' b'e' f determined, irrespective'of their work. or the groups of which they form apart. w

From the foregoingpltls thought that the construction, operation andjm'any-j ad yantages of the 7 herein described invention will'be' apparent to those skilled in-the' art, I

without further description, and'it will 'bei understood that various changes in the size,

shape, proportion, and minordetails oi con- 7 struetion may be resorted to without departing from thefspirit'or sacrificing'anyof the advantages ofthe invention.

Having thus fully descrlbedmy invention, 7

what I claim as new, and

LettersPatent, is 1. In apparatus lesire to secure by for the set ftorth,

the combinationwith a'oard having defined i 7. spaces for respectively receiving the-records I r of predetermined operations, of a factoring" devicev comprising body, a transparent sheet over the body having factors thereon for. the respective records tojb'e entered o'n the card, andme'ans interposedbetween the bodyand transparent sheet 'for spacing the two, said spacing means constituting a stop for-positioning a card placed beneath the transparent sheet with the diflerent spaces of such card'associated with the'proper fac-V tors therefor on the transparent sheet. H 2. In apparatus of the character set forth, the combination with" a card having defined spaces forrespectively receiving the records of predetermined operations, of a factoring "device comprising a body, a transpaient sheet overthe body having factors thereon for the respective records to be entered on the card, and means interposed betweenthe" body and sheet forming a pockethaving an inner stop wall and in which the card detachably' fits and when the latter is in its innermost position therein will have its said spaces associated with the factors for the records to be entered therein.

3. In apparatus for the purpose set forth, a body, a transparent sheet located thereover and and having a set of factors thereon,

and means for spacing the portion of the sheet carrying the factors from the body a distance sufiicient to permit the introduction 10 of a card between the two, said spacing NORMAN BLYTHE BRALY.

Witnesses:

v H. A. HOLP,

M. L. ESSIG. V 

